Noelia Bueno Gómez, PhD

Guest researcherDuration of stay: 12/2013-03/2014

Contact Address:Humboldtalee 36D-37073 Göttingen

CV

Noelia Bueno Gómez (A Fonsagrada, Lugo, 1984) received her MA and her PhD in Philosophy from the University of Oviedo (Spain) with a thesis entitled "Individual Identity in the Thought of Hannah Arendt: from Political Action to Biographical Storytelling". She has developed a multi-disciplinary career, combining her studies and research in the field of theoretical and practical philosophy with one Masters in Social Studies of Science and Technology (University of Salamanca and University of Oviedo) and one Masters in Social Problems (UNED), which is currently doing. After pre-doctoral research stays at the Goethe University of Frankfurt and the Catholic University of Lovain la Neuve (Belgium), she has worked in a post-doctoral research project at the Institute of Ethnology (Slovak Academy of Sciences). She works currently with a DAAD scholarship on a reconsideration of the "hiding death" thesis, and its implications for care and attention of dying people.

Main Research Topics

The changes in the conception of self, and personal identity; the new demands imposed on individuals and groups by the conditions of modern societies, and their answers to them are the backbone of her works and interests. In her postdoctoral stage, she has focused in the contemporary experience of death. Topics: Political Action, Storytelling and Identity, Autonomy and Care, Aging and Death in Current Society, Role of History and Memory in Articulating the Past.